OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

1 FKIEND OFvNEGLECTED CHttBREN. (By Teltgraph-Fre«B Aasocldtlbn-Copyrlßht.) '~ ■'■'.■;•■'"■ _ : Melbourne, October J. Miss_ Sutherland, who has been a noted oharity worker among 'neglected children foi I thirty-five years, is deadi ■<■'.'■ . ■ . ;-v : - Miss Sulina Sutherland, .Secretary.'of the Victorian N;eg]e6ted Children's: Aid" Society wis, born in. the Parish of Kildonnel; Sutherjwdshilre, Scothha. Her early life Was spent !J> the Wwarapa difetrict. New. Zealand' (sayj "Johhs'S Notable Austrtlian,"). OnTorhw first,acts of phi ahthrony to bring her tioUbW Woolihed,".where a nuniber of'surveyor,™d their men.were:suffering from typhoid fever She; afterwards f6Wded the' MasWton Hos! pital.. Sh6 arn T ed in.Victoria in iSSI. and w«6 ?PrwL nte ci lnil 7 -JniSionwry.-to,the Soote Charch, CoUitiS Street, end there befeinnine her work amonr nSßlfcted. children, founded the Scots Church' Neileeted Children's Aid Society. l In 1883 she' established- tho Melbourne Maternity Homo, in 1885 founded , the Melbourne District Nursing Society, and. in 188 G. was appointed by the Presbytery of Melbourne the first lady missionary to the Presbyterian- Churches in Victoria. In-18S8 she was the first to:bo nppointed ih Victoria to rotcire children under the Neglected Children's Act. She established the Presbyterian Neglected - Children's Aid Society: in 1894, tho Victorian Neglected CMldron'B AW Society in. 1895. ■